"Huge toxic pile by river to be moved"

No, it's not a headline from Eye on Springfield. It's in Moab, Utah:

A 10-million-ton pile of radioactive waste that has been polluting the Colorado River for decades will be moved under a plan announced yesterday by the U.S. Department of Energy.

The decision comes after years of heated and emotional debate over what to do with the pile, which sits 750 feet from the river near the tourist town of Moab, Utah.

The decision is being hailed as an environmental victory that will safeguard the drinking water of more than 25 million people, including most San Diego County residents [and those in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix and many other cities in the Southwest]...

I briefly visited Moab during the Blogging Across America tour, but I had no idea there was something like that there. If I'd known I surely would have covered it. As it was, all I did was take some bad shots of Arches National Park. You see the "best" one to the right.

California · Thu, 04/07/2005 - 09:58 · · Importance: 1

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